Royals Royal Ddu-du Ddu-du I wondered yesterday in my post about the South Korean state visit to the UK whether or not Prince William and Kate would drop some K-pop knowledge at the state dinner. Still not sure if the Waleses know between BTS and Got7 but K-pop was represented last night at Buckingham By Lainey • Nov 22, 2023 10:12 am
Sports Intro for November 21, 2023 Dear Gossips, We’ll get to Travis Kelce’s WSJ. Magazine feature later today but first I’m starting with his mother, Donna, because, if you recall, a couple of weeks ago there were all these rumours about how the Kelce family was “worried” about Travis’s relationship with Taylor By Lainey • Nov 21, 2023 09:02 am
Music Taylor Swift: “Bigger Than The Whole Sky” The weather has been a challenge for Taylor Swift’s The Eras tour in South America. She rescheduled one show in Buenos Aires because of a storm. And on Friday in Rio de Janeiro, due to extreme heat, concertgoer Ana Clara Benevides, 23, collapsed at the venue and died later By Lainey • Nov 20, 2023 09:43 am
Music Intro for November 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Billboard Music Awards happened last night and since I’m still overseas, I don’t really have a minute-by-minute understanding of what went down during the show but I can tell you that my algorithm is set to Mariah Carey, always, so I do know that Mimi By Lainey • Nov 20, 2023 09:06 am
Music Travis Scott reflects on the Astroworld tragedy In an interview with GQ for their Men of the Year issue, Travis Scott reflected on the deaths of 10 concertgoers due to a crowd surge at Astroworld in Houston in 2021. In the interview, he described his thoughts about his fans, saying they were like “family” to him. " By Stephanie • Nov 16, 2023 01:32 pm
Music TNT: The Best Episode So Far! If you are a gossip, no matter where you were this weekend, whether it was Japan or North America or Africa or Australia or Europe or South America, especially South America, our gossip time zones were in alignment and we were watching the same show. It’s the rom-com we’ By Lainey • Nov 14, 2023 10:19 am
Music Intro for November 14, 2023 Dear Gossips, Big music news today – new music from Andre 3000. It’s been over 17 years. He is universally recognised as one of the great rappers of all time. So it’s an understatement to say that the anticipation has been, well, it’s been so high it’s By Lainey • Nov 14, 2023 09:10 am
Music JK takes NYC What a week Jungkook has had in New York as he promotes his debut album, GOLDEN, which dropped last Friday. There was an appearance and performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He was at Sirius XM doing promotion. He did a set on The Today Show and he By Lainey • Nov 10, 2023 11:36 am
Music She’s “falling in love again” There was no new episode of our current favourite rom-com, TNT, in Buenos Aires on Thursday night when Taylor Swift kicked off the South American leg of The Eras tour. After all that anticipation and speculation, Travis Kelce was not at the show. Instead, he was in Kansas City with By Lainey • Nov 10, 2023 09:32 am
Sports Taylor & Travis: The Rom-Com Suspense The big news in Taylor Swift right now is that she just added new dates to The Eras tour. In addition to the six shows she’s playing in Toronto in November 2024, she will now play three more in Vancouver the following month, which means, at least for now, By Lainey • Nov 02, 2023 01:49 pm
Music Rachel McAdams, Jungkook, and Emma Corrin I know, right? Not a trio of names you expected to be thrown together. But I’m connecting them for a reason. All three of them are trending on social media right now – Jungkook and Emma Corrin together and Rachel McAdams on her own. Let’s start with JK because By Lainey • Nov 01, 2023 02:44 pm
BFFs Taylor Swift: Billionaire Takeover Even if you’re not Taylor Swift’s biggest fan, it’s impossible to deny the fact she has completely dominated the culture over the last few weeks – and at a time when the monoculture is dying, these takeovers don’t happen all that often. What’s also extraordinary, especially By Lainey • Oct 27, 2023 10:47 am
Music U2 and Gaga I have tried not to be jealous of my friend Lolo who was in Vegas for the U2 show a couple of weeks ago because while I’m not as out-of-her-mind obsessed about U2 as she is, I mean, I was around during the rise of U2. I was around By Lainey • Oct 26, 2023 01:33 pm
Music Taylor Swift: “Cruel Summer” and the Coolest Fall Taylor Swift has always said she loves fall. “Basic autumn lovers RISE” was what she captioned one of her more popular TikToks a couple of years ago to celebrate the season. That was in 2021 but Taylor was referencing her Tumblr post from 2014 which is why I think she By Lainey • Oct 24, 2023 12:03 pm
Music Taylor Swift: The Winningest WAG Taylor Swift, for the second weekend in a row, was #1 at the box office with her The Eras Tour movie with $32 million. Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon had a strong start, especially considering the film is over three hours long but Taylor remains dominant at By Lainey • Oct 23, 2023 10:46 am
TV Updates Intro for October 19, 2023 Dear Gossips, I work on an entertainment news show and every morning we meet to line up the night’s episode and talk about our favourite stories of the day. Last week we were all losing it at one of the meetings over Bad Bunny’s wig hat. Fans had By Lainey • Oct 19, 2023 09:37 am
